Garden Shed

Things are really moving on in the garden makeover!

Autumn Booms

Pleased to see the Japanese Anemones survived moving position.

Garden update

Garden update. Tomatoes ripening inside and out. Everlasting sweet peas doing well. Hollyhocks flowering.

Tomato Harvest

Bowl of Mountain magic and a large Shirley. Better check I've got soup and chutney ingredients as there's lots more to come.

Lilies in my Garden

You can't beat Morrisons for great value plants, shrubs and trees.  Our garden isn't huge but with a complete re-landscape there are lots of plants needed to get it set up and most of what we've bought have come from Morrisons special and seasonal offers.  Even full price they're a fraction of other places prices.  There are five different lillies here and the pack of bulbs was one of a 3 for £5 offer - £1.66 for 5 magnificent plants.  

They smell gorgeous!

The scent is amazing!

Sunflowers

Plants from Guide Dogs in exchange for a donation.

Paul and I are competing for the tallest plant...

Paul's measure today............... 1.3m

Lynne's measure today...........  3.0m  !!!!!!!!

Garden update

Oriental Lily on the cusp of blooming.

Tomato leaves stripped for sun to ripen

Everlasting Sweet Peas

Who said Hollyhocks don't bloom first year?

Cucumbers

This morning's harvest.

This week's menu...
Cucumber - soup, pie cake, omelette, jam, wine, sandwich, quiche.... LOL

Sunset

Sat on the patio watching the sun set. Been 30 degrees today but cooler now.

Fresh Green Leaves

These cut and come again baby leaves just keep on growing. Better than a squashed bag from the supermarket. Harvested these for tea yesterday.  So easy to grow, I have them in the greenhouse but just as easy to raise on a well lit windowsill indoors.

Busy in the Garden

Busy in the garden today. Lots of help from Scooby and a larger amount of hindrance from the Westie lads - so far, Skrapy found a frog a couple of hours ago and he's not going to forget it and Sparky found something extremely foul smelling that he needed to rub his head in.

Tomatoes are planted - note the professional tomato frame constructed by Paul and Jon out of left over wood. Love that!

After the rain showers this week the new flower beds have had a growth spurt and ...clematis are racing up the trellis.

Rhododendron is approaching full glory. 

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New Lawn - Before and After

Before, During and After

Easter spent transforming the garden, good job Paul!

Another Lily Bursts Open

Roses

Gorgeous big blooms on the climbing roses. Bit top heavy as they missed being pruned last year

Lily of the valley

Lots of lily of the valley coming up through the concrete

Fancy poppies

Transformation

 

Grom This

to

This

Front garden clear out

There's a bird's nest with eggs in half way up the climber on the front wall so removal has been abandoned.  The tall tree has been felled and the overgrown bushes around the gate have been dug up.  The area round the front door is much lighter now.  The roots of the tree are jammed in the stone trough.  It's going to be an axe job.

Garden Clearance

 

 

Removing 4 huge uninteresting shrubs and severely pruning a large Maple tree has opened up the garden.

There's lots of work to do but clearing some space has tidied it up for now.